strange 'create mask' problem

Eric Yellin Eric at migvan.co.il
Mon Feb 12 23:17:27 GMT 2001


Thanks to Giulio Orsero for the tip. It was almost the full answer...

I used 'force create mode' = 0775 (not 'force create mask') and removed
the 'create mask' entry altogether and it now works fine.

Eric Yellin

> From: Giulio Orsero <giulioo at pobox.com>
> To: samba at us5.samba.org
> Subject: Re: strange 'create mask' problem
> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 09:37:38 +0100
> Organization: nowhere
> 
> On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 10:11:32 +0200, you wrote:
> 
> >[share1]
> >   create mask = 775
> >
> >The share works fine however when creating a file on the server it is
> >given 0764 permissions instead of 0775
> >I played around with the 'create mask' values and finally was able to
> >get 0775 permissions by setting it to 766...
> 
> "create mask"  sets the limit.
> "force create mask" sets the mode.
> 
> use
> create mask = 775
> force create mask = 775
> 
> --
> giulioo at pobox.com




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